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Welcome to al jazeera america. Im stephanie sy. You are looking at a live picture of the Empire State Building here in new york city. Its clear skies at the moment. That is quite literally the calm before the storm. A severe winter storm is headed towards the northeast, and is expected to impact a wide stretch from washington d. C. To new england. The storm system walloped the great labellings wreejon. Chick lakes region. Chicago was hit with 9 inches of snow and more today. 400 flights were cancelled at chicagos ohare airport. The eastwest is bracing for a storm, expected to pack a blizzard like temperatures, flirting with 0 degrees. The governor of new york said the state may close major highway as a caution. In boston city schools closed for the week, declaring a snow emergency for the region. Lets go to Kevin Corriveau for more on the storms project path. Well, we are seeing our weather deteriorate across northeast because of two weather systems that are merging and combining their
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Which he hopes will come later. Nick, what does kerry hope to accomplish this time . Little baby steps, dell, thats all u. S. Officials are saying he is here to today, get a framework that will allow the two sides to talk in the future. And he is really pushing for concessions on both sides. He says it is time that both sides make a lot of hard choices, but he is getting a lot of resistance from Prime Minister benjamin netenyahu. I know you are committed to peace, i know i am committed to peace, but unfortunately given the actions and words of palestinian leaders, there is growing doubt in israel that the palestinians are committed to peace. The time is soon arising where leaders are going to have to make difficult decisions. We are close to that time, if not at it. And one of those main concessions that kerry is going to push netenyahu to make and in indeed one of the main aspects and issues in the talks between the two sides are settlements. Israeli settlements that they are building